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Powerful story of climate change

Dust by Alison Stine

December 2, 2024 by LB Leave a Comment

There was so much of this I loved, but also this was a book that felt really slow through most of the middle. Thea is partially deaf and after her family’s home in Ohio flooded, her dad brought them to Bloodless Valley in Colorado in order to live a simple life and return to basic farming lifestyle. But there is nothing simple about living in the Valley. There’s been a drought for a long time and corporate farms keep buying the water, making it harder […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Alison Stine, alt-history, climate change, community, deaf, hard of hearing, Own voices, Speculative Fiction

LB's CBR16 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Alison Stine, alt-history, climate change, community, deaf, hard of hearing, Own voices, Speculative Fiction ·
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Emotional Historical YA

Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall

October 10, 2022 by LB 1 Comment

Yup, I cried, but no one is surprised. Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken is a story of resistance and making joy during dark times, as well as family and love. It is a story that examines when safety stops being enough and it’s time to resist and push back against harmful regimes. It is also the story of a group of friends navigating their friendship and society when it’s not safe to be Jewish, it’s not safe to be queer, it’s not safe to be […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: hard of hearing, Nita Tyndall, queer, sapphic, teen friendship, World War Two, WWII, YA, Young Adult

LB's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: hard of hearing, Nita Tyndall, queer, sapphic, teen friendship, World War Two, WWII, YA, Young Adult ·
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